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Circle Thinking: African Women Theologians in Dialogue with the West

Book by Carrie Pemberton; Brill, 2003

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Africa, Sub-Saharan--Church History, Church Work With Women--Africa, Sub-Saharan, Circle Of Concerned African Women Theologians, Theology, Doctrinal--Africa, Sub-Saharan--History, Women In Christianity--Africa, Sub-Saharan, Women Theologians--Africa, Sub-Saharan--History--20th Century

Collections: Religious Studies, Entire Library

...Introduction to African Religion. London...Garden: The Role of the Woman in African Religion...African Christian Women Address the Issues of...Prolegomena for an African Council. Towards she African Synod, Concilium 1992...Ngwenya, J. (1983). Women and Liberation in Zimbabwe...Us Returns Home the Woman She was when She Came...
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Psychotherapy with African American Women: Innovations in Psychodynamic Perspectives and Practice

Book by Leslie C. Jackson, Beverly Greene; Guilford Press, 2000

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African American Women--Mental Health, African American Women--Psychology, Psychodynamic Psychotherapy

Collections: Psychology, Entire Library

...B. Cole, the first woman president of Spelman...ancestors in the lives of African American women. Speaking of the nameless West African woman who represented all of...captors own words. This woman studied white folks ways...teach European American women that they are capable...
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Wines in the Wilderness: Plays by African American Women from the Harlem Renaissance to the Present

Book by Elizabeth Brown-Guillory; Praeger, 1990

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African American Women--Drama, African Americans--Drama, American Drama--20th Century, American Drama--African American Authors, American Drama--Women Authors

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...Its Mornin to their African past in several ways...Grannie Lou, the voodoo woman, as a powerful force...Millie will be sold, the women of the community, functioning...religious beliefs of Africans of old and of the colonized...heroism about the first Africans in America are passed...about the courageous African woman who killed her three...
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Preacher Woman Sings the Blues: The Autobiographies of Nineteenth-Century African American Evangelists

Book by Richard J. Douglass-Chin; University of Missouri Press, 2001

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African American Evangelists--Biography, African American Women--Biography

Collections: Religious Studies, Entire Library

...Like the Moon Petition of An African Slave, to the Legislature...not write African American woman at this juncture, for the...African name we do not know this woman called Belinda identi es herself...Belinda the earliest known black woman in America whose life story...Nonautobiographical writings of other black women have emerged from the eighteenth...
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Mules and Dragons: Popular Culture Images in the Selected Writings of African-American and Chinese-American Women Writers

Book by Mary E. Young; Greenwood Press, 1993

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American Literature--African American Authors--History And Criticism, American Literature--Chinese American Authors--History And Criticism, American Literature--Women Authors--History And Criticism, Popular Culture In Literature, Stereotype (Psychology) In Literature, Women And Literature--United States

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...mother. With this ruling, the African female in the American colonies...necessary capital by breeding the African slave women. As a result, enforced breeding of Africans became the norm. The African woman did not freely accept anothers...

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Journal Articles on: african woman

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We Belong Here, Too: Accommodating African Muslim Feminism in African Feminist Theory Via Zaynab Alkali's the Virtuous Woman and the Cobwebs and Other Stories

Journal article by Shirin Edwin; Frontiers - A Journal of Women's Studies, Vol. 27, 2006

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A Virtuous Woman (Novel)--Criticism and interpretation, African women writers--Criticism and interpretation, African women writers--Works, Alkali, Zaynab--Criticism and interpretation, Alkali, Zaynab--Works, Feminism--Analysis, The Cobwebs and Other Stories (Short fiction collection)--Criticism and interpretation, Women authors, African--Criticism and interpretation, Women authors, African--Works

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...solutions to problems facing African women. Central to the...and choices of African women. (1) Within the limits...relationship between Islam and women in Nigerian novelist Zaynab Alkalis The Virtuous Woman (1987) and The Cobwebs...Hauwa Ali," in Writing African Women, 123. 29. Ezenwa...Growth of the Nigerian woman in Zaynab Alkalis The...
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Foreign Exotic or Domestic Drudge? the African American Woman in "Quicksand" and "Tar Baby

Journal article by Ann Rayson; MELUS, Vol. 23, 1998

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African American women authors--Criticism, interpretation, etc., American literature--African American authors, Larsen, Nella--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Morrison, Toni--Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...Drudge? The African American Woman in "Quicksand...choices. Both women, orphans taken...always been women. As an African American woman, Helga Crane...4) If the African woman in the yellow...men. Black women become the pawns...
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"Womanhood under the Magnifying Glass: a Look at Insanity among Women in African Literature and Society

Journal article by Remi Akujobi; Gender & Behaviour, Vol. 6, 2008

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African literature, Literary criticism, Mental disorders, Society, Women

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...Insanity among Women in African Literature and Society...are there so many mad women in society as in texts? Is the mad woman any saner than the society...west or as perceived by Africans who attribute madness...wickedness on the part of the woman, rivalry, aborted...understand how and why women loose their minds...recurring theme among African women, particularly...
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Overcoming the Odds: Challenges and Successes of Sub-Saharan African Women Seeking Higher Education in the United States

Journal article by Mary Wairimu Gatua; Adult Learning, Vol. 20, 2009

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African students--Education, Graduate study--Analysis, Narratives--Analysis, Universities and colleges--Analysis, Universities and colleges--Graduate work, Women--Education

Collections: Education, Entire Library

...education. My journey as an African woman, a doctoral student...lesson for other African women that pursuit of education...graduate studies for African women in a foreign country...challenges, especially for women who are married or have children. To some women, it is a necessary...the first African woman to win the Nobel Peace...
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African Women: A Modern History

Journal article by Claire Robertson; The Historian, Vol. 61, 1999

Subjects:

African Women: A Modern History (Book)--Reviews, Books--Reviews

Collections: History, Entire Library

African Women: A Modern History by Claire Robertson African Women: A Modern History...small field of textbooks about African women. Like other volumes...the situation of precolonial African women. Catherine Coquery...Christianize but not Westernize Africans. Even anglophobia is evident...

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Magazine Articles on: african woman

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New African Woman Is Born: Due to Popular Demand, New African Woman, Which Has Been Running as a Regular Supplement in New African since July 2008, Has This Month Been Launched as a Stand-Alone 100-Page Quarterly Magazine in Both English and French, the First Time Ever That a Magazine Has Been Launched Simultaneously in the Two Languages, and to Cover the Whole Continent

Magazine article by Ogo Okafor; New African, May 2009

Subjects:

Black women--Appreciation, New African Woman (Periodical)--Management, Periodicals--Management, Women, Black--Appreciation

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...affecting continental African women or those living outside...American or Caribbean women market. Our new magazine...editor of New African Woman, is also passionate...diverse beauty of the African woman with the respect it...topics, which many women (and some men) will...
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Yaa Asantewaa: A Woman of Iron

Magazine article by Ivor Agyeman-Duah, Osei Boateng; New African, December 2000

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Asantewaa, Yaa--Appreciation, Ashanti (African people)--Personalities, Command of troops--Appreciation, Ghana--Personalities, Imperialism--Ghana, Queens--Appreciation, Women--Ghana

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...accounts of the subservient African woman, Ivor Wilks, the British...of ancestrees because women dominated in policy...constructed on the orders of a woman -- Akyaawa Yikwan...after her, and some African-American women have adopted her name...use, one of a young woman holding a gun, a picture...
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What about the Women?

Magazine article by Antonio De Figueiredo; New African, January 2003

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Africans--Political aspects, Africans--Social aspects, Colonization--Social aspects, International relations--Social aspects, Manners and customs--Criticism and interpretation, Women in politics--Criticism and interpretation, Women's rights--Political aspects, Women's rights--Social aspects, Women--Political aspects, Women--Social aspects

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...Africa towards Kenyan or South African tourist attractions, also...five Portuguese-speaking African countries--Mozambique...including, incidentally, by many Africans. In what concerns women...and fellow countrymen, now women still feel "marginalised" within African "marginalisation. Even I...balance when asked by a Canadian woman journalist: "And what about...
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Say No to Sexual Objectification Full Stop! It Is Not Positive Stories of Black Women from the Past and Present That Need to Be Told. Robert Cooper Asks New African Women to Champion the Issue of Self-Worth and to Help Stop the Oversexualisation of Black Women. "The World Should Say Full Stop to Sexually Objectifying Our Sisters," He Writes

Magazine article by Robert Cooper; New African, October 2008

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African Americans, Black women, Women, Black

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...Told. Robert Cooper Asks New African Women to Champion the Issue of Self...Oversexualisation of Black Women. "The World Should Say Full...sexually objectifying Black women has become a typical and common...Saartjie Baartman, the Khoisan woman treatment at the hands of...beautiful and "normal" than Africans. They gave her the derogatory...
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Do Good, Get Rich: Social Warriors Start Businesses That Improve the Lives of African Women

Magazine article by Elaine Lee; Black Enterprise, Vol. 38, May 2008

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Africans--Economic aspects, Africans--Social aspects, Microfinance--Social aspects, Women--Economic aspects, Women--Social aspects

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...Businesses That Improve the Lives of African Women. by Elaine Lee ILLUSTRATION...uplifting and empowering indigenous African women through business. Her life...making classes at her store for African refugee women in Salt Lake City. Her long...

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Newspaper Articles on: african woman

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How Could This White Housewife's Identity Be Stolen and Used in a Passport by an African Woman for 15 Years?

Newspaper article; The Daily Mail (London, England), June 21, 2011

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False personation, Impersonation (Fraud), Passports, Theft, Working women

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...Stolen and Used in a Passport by an African Woman for 15 Years? Byline: James Tozer...their obvious differences, the African woman was able to spend 15 years...years younger than me. She is of African appearance and I am not. How she...
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Incontinence African Scourge; Lack of Medical Care Turns Girls, Women into Pariahs

Newspaper article; The Washington Times, June 17, 2007

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Health care industry, Urinary incontinence, Women

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

Incontinence African Scourge; Lack of Medical Care...in a stillbirth. Affected women, many of whom are teenagers...of five Ethiopian girls and women with obstetric fistulas and...societies where a poor diet causes women to have smaller bodies. An...persistent drip of urine that a woman suffering from the preventable...
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Monique's LABOUR OF LOVE; at 22, Kris Holloway Left New York to Spend Two Years Working in a West African Village, and Forged a Deep Friendship with a Young Midwife. Here She Pays Tribute to Monique Dembele's Joie De Vivre, Her Courage in the Face of Relentless Hardships and Her Determination to Transform the Future of Mali-Born Women Main Photograph TSAR FEDORSKY

Newspaper article; The Mail on Sunday (London, England), May 1, 2011

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Holloway, Kris--Appreciation, Women

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...Years Working in a West African Village, and Forged...Future of Mali-Born Women Main Photograph TSAR...was the most educated woman in town. The village...in a country where one woman in 22 dies in pregnancy...scrubbed surface a naked woman pushed. Moniques hands...about nutrition with the women who came to the clinic...
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Monique's LABOUR OF LOVE; at 22, Kris Holloway Left New York to Spend Two Years Working in a West African Village, and Forged a Deep Friendship with a Young Midwife. Here She Pays Tribute to Monique Dembele's Joie De Vivre, Her Courage in the Face of Relentless Hardships and Her Determination to Transform the Future of Mali-Born Women Main Photograph TSAR FEDORSKY

Newspaper article; The Daily Mail (London, England), April 30, 2011

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Holloway, Kris--Appreciation, Women

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...Years Working in a West African Village, and Forged...Future of Mali-Born Women Main Photograph TSAR...was the most educated woman in town. The village...in a country where one woman in 22 dies in pregnancy...scrubbed surface a naked woman pushed. Moniques hands...about nutrition with the women who came to the clinic...
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How Could an African Woman Steal This British Housewife's Identity and Get Away with It for 15 Years?

Newspaper article; The Daily Mail (London, England), June 21, 2011

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

How Could an African Woman Steal This British Housewifes Identity...despite their obvious differences, the African woman was able to spend 15 years travelling...20 years younger than me. She is of African appearance and I am not. Neither are...

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Encyclopedia Articles on: african woman

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Woman Suffrage

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

WOMAN SUFFRAGE the right of women to vote. Throughout...declaration of the rights of women prepared by Elizabeth...newly emancipated African-American men but not to the women who had helped win...vote. The National Woman Suffrage Association...
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Maathai, Wangari Muta

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...in the National Council of Women of Kenya, she initiated...encourages ordinary Kenyan women to plant trees to counter erosion...advocated the cancellation of African foreign debt. In 2002 she...She became the first African woman to win the Nobel Peace Prize...Life Campaigning for Africa, Women, and the Environment (2002...
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Harris, Patricia Roberts

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...Howard Univ. during the 1960s and became the first African-American woman to hold a U.S. ambassadorship when she was...under President Jimmy Carter, she was the first African-American woman to serve in a cabinet post. From 1979 to 1981...
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Simmons, Ruth

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...was named president of Smith College, becoming the first African-American woman to head a top-ranked college or university. While there...Meridians, a journal addressing the concerns of minority women. Simmons left Smith in 2001 to become president of Brown...
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Howe, Julia Ward

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...1854. Mrs. Howe wrote and lectured in behalf of woman suffrage, African-American emancipation, and other causes, and helped...Academy of Arts and Letters elected her as its first woman member (1908). Besides writing several volumes...

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